These 24 Washington marijuana shops are licensed to open July 8

Has the Washington state Liquor Control Board ever released a more anticipated list than the one it released this morning — the list of the retail marijuana shops that are licensed to start selling cannabis on July 8?

And here it is: The 24 Washington marijuana shops that are licensed to start selling retail cannabis to consumers 21 and older on July 8 — and, imagine this, only one of them is in Seattle. The Associated Press reported Monday night that only six stores were planning to open Tuesday (marked with x-). Others said they would open in the coming weeks or that they weren’t sure when they’d have marijuana to sell.

Ricardo Baca is the founder and editor of The Cannabist, legal marijuana's paper of record and a division of The Denver Post. Fortune magazine ranked Baca as one of the seven most powerful people in American cannabis while the Brookings Institution...